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Tales from the Commute
Jul. 18th, 2018 08:03 am1. On the subway car, guy was talking to his friend; I wasn’t really listening until I caught a bit that sounded like “Apparently he had these ice-blue eyes and was a crack shot.” That made me curious enough to pay attention, but the rest sounded like “blah blah blah regional issues blah.” Finally guessed that the guy was a historian discussing his research — there aren’t many other topics that are such a mix of “dry” and “they had to leave this part out of the movie because audiences would have thought it was a cliche/exaggeration.”
2. The woman next to me on the bus wasn’t having a good morning. Things kept falling out of her bag. Then she anxiously asked people if she could borrow a phone and called the person she was meeting, trying to figure out at what street she was supposed to get off. The man who’d lent her the phone pointed out that we were on an express bus and it wouldn’t stop at that intersection. “All right,” she said into the phone, “I’ll get off at Eglinton.” “We just passed Eglinton,” I said. She began frantically gathering her things, and I wondered for a moment if she was going to forget to give back the phone, and indeed if this whole thing had been a set-up to steal someone’s phone while maintaining plausible deniability of guilt if she didn’t make it off the bus without being stopped; but she gave the phone back. I hope she managed to link up with her friend.
3. I’m probably the last person to figure this out, but Life (2007-09) was basically The Count of Monte Cristo as a detective show, wasn’t it? ETA — googles it and yep, I’m the last person. It’s even possible I already knew this and simply forgot.
Further ETA — does this mean Crews’ cassette tape of “The Path to Zen” is the Abbe Faria?
2. The woman next to me on the bus wasn’t having a good morning. Things kept falling out of her bag. Then she anxiously asked people if she could borrow a phone and called the person she was meeting, trying to figure out at what street she was supposed to get off. The man who’d lent her the phone pointed out that we were on an express bus and it wouldn’t stop at that intersection. “All right,” she said into the phone, “I’ll get off at Eglinton.” “We just passed Eglinton,” I said. She began frantically gathering her things, and I wondered for a moment if she was going to forget to give back the phone, and indeed if this whole thing had been a set-up to steal someone’s phone while maintaining plausible deniability of guilt if she didn’t make it off the bus without being stopped; but she gave the phone back. I hope she managed to link up with her friend.
3. I’m probably the last person to figure this out, but Life (2007-09) was basically The Count of Monte Cristo as a detective show, wasn’t it? ETA — googles it and yep, I’m the last person. It’s even possible I already knew this and simply forgot.
Further ETA — does this mean Crews’ cassette tape of “The Path to Zen” is the Abbe Faria?
